Foreword

Faculty of The Social Sciences is a relatively new Faculty by name but, it is old in terms of its existence since 1983 as part of the defunct Faculty of Social and Management Sciences. It was only in June 2002 that the old Faculty of Social and Management Sciences was divided into two separate Faculties namely: FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES and FACULTY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES for better efficiency and delivery of educational services.

Since its re-creation in 2002 by University Senate and the approval of the Governing Council, the Faculty decided to design and build a true Social Science culture that will guide all activities within it and in relation to all other academic and non-academic units within the University and outside.

Faculty of The Social Sciences currently has four major Departments ie: Geography and Regional Planning (GRP); Political Science (Pol. Sc); Psychology (Psy) and Sociology (Soc). There are however seven degree programmes namely: 

                B. Sc  Geography and Regional Planning

                B. Sc  Transport Planning and Management

                B. Sc   Political Science

                B. Sc   Public Administration

                B. Sc   Psychology

                B. Sc   Sociology

                B. Sc  Industrial and Labour Relations

It is hoped that B. Sc Investigative and Forensic Studies (IFS) will commence  very soon in the Department of Psychology.

Apart from the B.Sc degree Programmes, the Faculty also runs Sub- Degree programmes leading to the award of Diploma Certificates, namely: DTM: Diploma in Transport Management, DA - Diploma in Administration. The postgraduate programmes of the Faculty are: Post graduate Diploma in Transport, Post graduate Diploma in Public Administration, Post graduate Diploma in Industrial and Labour Relations, M.Sc Transport Studies, Master in Transport (Professional), Master in Public Administration and Ph.D in Transport Studies. It is hoped that very soon the Master in Industrial and Human Resource Management will commence in the Department of Sociology. 

Faculty of The Social Sciences is one of the largest Faculties in the University with a student population of about 3,705(Three thousand seven hundred and five) in the full-time programmes, and 4,519 (Four thousand five hundred and nineteen) in the part-time programmee in the 2003/2004 academic session. The Faculty staff is in excess of 100, comprising full-time academic staff, full-time non-teaching staff and the associate lecturers.

As a result of the increase in student population, the Faculty and the University Management have put in place plans to build more lecture rooms as well as offices for staff. There are also plans to improve on the administrative, teaching and research facilities especially in the area of computer applications.